Security Services: Azure Key Vault

Introduction

As software developers, we often need to store certain secrets for the resources we access, such as databases and APIs. Traditionally, we store these secrets in configuration files and the application source code. However, this approach introduces several security challenges, such as:

• It is possible to push the secrets to the source control repository and expose them to everyone.
• The difficulty of tracking who accessed the secret and when. Azure Key Vault comes to address this challenge. It is a cloud service that securely stores and tightly controls access to critical resources such as passwords, API credentials, certificates, and cryptographic keys.